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The Centre for Security and Defence Studies
of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs presents
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Peter Beinart
Author of The Crisis of Zionism
"The United States and Israel:
Why Netanyahu and Obama Can't Get Along"
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Peter Beinart is Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at The City University of New York, a Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast-Newsweek, where he edits the blog, Open Zion, and a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. Until 2006 he was the Editor of The New Republic magazine, where he had been writer and editor since 1995. From 2007-2009 he was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Beinart is the author of three books, The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great (HarperCollins 2006), The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris (HarperCollins 2010) and most recently, The Crisis of Zionism (Times Books 2012), which expands his controversial 2010 New York Review of Books essay, "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment." He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Time, Slate, Reader's Digest, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Polity. The Week magazine named him columnist of the year for 2004. In 2005, he delivered the Theodore H. White Lecture at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He has appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press," ABC's "This Week," "Charlie Rose," "The McLaughlin Group," "The Colbert Report," MTV, CNN, Fox, MSNBC and many other television and radio programs. He is a graduate of Yale University and University College, Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Senate Room, 608 Robertson Hall | Carleton University
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Advance registration is required at beinart.eventbrite.ca or at the link below.
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